mixing a variety of BPMs together

[laurent__duval]

i like to turn the deck off and just before it starts to sound really distorted bring in the new beat. sometimes it sounds shit though!

[mumble]

You could just whap the crossfader over from one tune to the other and not bother with beatmatching. No shame in that

Plenty of shame in that

I don't see anything wrong in not beatmatching, it all about context. If your mixing music thats somewhat unmixable or you want to play a track that simply wont mix with the one playing then I don't see any shame in letting a tune roll out and starting the next track edge.

Yeah it's fine for the odd track, but a whole set of doing this? not kool

Im sure I read somewhere, possibly Blackdown's pitchfork column, that when The Bug played at FWD once he didnt attempt to beatmatch anything and edge rolled each track.

[morro_e]

how do you do this?

yo just whatever gravious said really!

many many djs dont play one bpm and good for them! use delays, filters, eq (not to much of these though), look for beatless parts of the track, scratch and just go crazy really but try it to sound good and thats it

i love it when hip hop beat blends into delayed and fading out dubstep track..

[Hibbie]

You could just whap the crossfader over from one tune to the other and not bother with beatmatching. No shame in that

Plenty of shame in that

I don't see anything wrong in not beatmatching, it all about context. If your mixing music thats somewhat unmixable or you want to play a track that simply wont mix with the one playing then I don't see any shame in letting a tune roll out and starting the next track edge.

Yeah it's fine for the odd track, but a whole set of doing this? not kool

Im sure I read somewhere, possibly Blackdown's pitchfork column, that when The Bug played at FWD once he didnt attempt to beatmatch anything and edge rolled each track.

lol and that makes it ok

[mumble]

Plenty of shame in that

I don't see anything wrong in not beatmatching, it all about context. If your mixing music thats somewhat unmixable or you want to play a track that simply wont mix with the one playing then I don't see any shame in letting a tune roll out and starting the next track edge.

Yeah it's fine for the odd track, but a whole set of doing this? not kool

Im sure I read somewhere, possibly Blackdown's pitchfork column, that when The Bug played at FWD once he didnt attempt to beatmatch anything and edge rolled each track.

lol and that makes it ok

Doesn't make it wrong either.

[sammydiamond]

I don't see anything wrong in not beatmatching, it all about context. If your mixing music thats somewhat unmixable or you want to play a track that simply wont mix with the one playing then I don't see any shame in letting a tune roll out and starting the next track edge.

Yeah it's fine for the odd track, but a whole set of doing this? not kool

Im sure I read somewhere, possibly Blackdown's pitchfork column, that when The Bug played at FWD once he didnt attempt to beatmatch anything and edge rolled each track.

lol and that makes it ok

Doesn't make it wrong either.

Yeah, it's like soundclash style, nice and old skool. reverb boxes etc.

Personally i'll slowly nudge the pitch control up a few % on a slower tune whilst its playing and then mix in a faster one minus a few % so they meet in the middle and then nudge that up so it's at the original bpm. good to be careful with this though, like try to move the pitch on a drum break and not a full on melody

[djrodan]

some dj's can pull this off. At the end of one track, spam a bunch of lazer noises and vocal clips saying the dj's name and explosion sound fx then they just switch to the next song, the attention switches from deck a to a mess of noise to track b.

if youre nice at it, it works fine. two schools of though on this though, either "it works and is an added technique of the dj". or "its cop out and weak mixing". Though I dont really mix songs too far from the same tempo, ive heard many many many dj's do this that play many different styles.

ie. MAJOR LAZER and they fucking kill it. so idk, many sides to this argument. its really about the skills of the dj, and tastefulness

[freqone]

pitch controllers are not a decoration on your decks

What more can be said here? lol

[instinct]

pitch controllers are not a decoration on your decks